Madras HC constitutes Board for Chidambaram temple, which functions without hundi, amid DMK’s earlier takeover attempts

In a significant development in the long-running dispute over the administration of the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple, the Madras High Court on October 30 constituted a Board of Management, headed by two retired judges, to oversee the temple’s affairs. The order follows the court’s findings of alleged maladministration by the hereditary Podhu Dikshidars, who have been managing the historic shrine. The court held that the Podhu Dikshidars (a hereditary community of priests) had mismanaged the Chida

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